Anyone who cannot explain difficult concepts in simple terms to young people simply does not understand them well enough themselves. This book strives to present a narrative about the economy that the author's daughter would not find boring and which, at the same time, would explain two things... how our modern world came to be and why economists' theories are part of the problems - and not the solutions - that this world generates. It poses, and answers, provocative questions such as:

• When and how did the primacy of profit originate?
• Why would there never be wealth without debt?
• Where does the infuriating power of bankers come from?
• What lies behind economic crises?
• Is there hope that humanity will stop acting like a foolish virus that kills the organism it lives in?
• What is money and why does it "need" democracy?

Although it does not focus on the Greek daily life of recent, sorrowful years, the book addresses the major issues of social economy that touch all people, everywhere, but in a way that someone can use to see the recent collapse of the Greek economy from a different perspective, as well as the reasons why those in power stubbornly refuse to make the decisions that would bring redemption to our societies in Europe, in Greece, in the whole world.